Example sentences of "[conj] of [art] [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The manager who does read the latest circular , the latest information pack , the latest draft of organizational requirements in the privacy of the weekend at home has already gone through the experience either of having an appetite whetted by prior knowledge or of a palate blunted by a flavour which is already old . |
| 2 | Although Molins ' aim is to capture the ‘ small — and often unacknowledged — details of life ’ , her eye ranges from broad vistas noting the peculiar effect of a lamp-post Lurching up into the sky or of a statue gesticulating from the top of a building , to close-up studies of various corners of interiors . |
| 3 | 142 ( 2 ) The obligation under a condition or of a covenant entered into by a lessor with reference to the subject-matter of the lease shall , if and as far as the lessor has power to bind the reversionary estate immediately expectant on the term granted by the lease , be annexed and incident to and shall go with that reversionary estate , or the several parts thereof , notwithstanding severance of that reversionary estate , and may be taken advantage of and enforced by the person in whom the term is from time to time vested by conveyance , devolution in law , or otherwise ; and , if and as far as the lessor has power to bind the person from time to time entitled to that reversionary estate , the obligation aforesaid may be taken advantage of and enforced against any person so entitled . |
| 4 | The Privy Council in Chan Man-sin advised that the owner of a credit at the bank or of a right to draw on an account " has , clearly , the right as owner to draw by means of a properly completed negotiable instrument or order to pay and it is … beyond argument that one who draws , presents and negotiates a cheque on a particular bank account is assuming the rights of the owner … |
| 5 | Creativity is the starting point for any innovation : in many cases , a solitary process , conjuring up the image of an eccentric scientist buried under mounds of papers , or of an artist surrounded by half-finished canvases and multicolored palettes . |
| 6 | It is hard to see how a minute understanding of the development of the Greek language from Homer to Demosthenes , or of the keys used by Brahms in the second subjects of the first movements of his sonatas can be fitted into the usual pattern of socially useful knowledge . |
| 7 | You become aware of the ferret scraping at the rabbit , or of it killing the rabbit , or of the rabbit thumping in the hole . |
| 8 | But he does not remind us of the prophecy that hangs over them , or of the judgement pronounced by God upon the house of Eli . |
| 9 | Similarly the profit and loss accounts must give a like view of the profit or loss of the company or of the undertakings included in the consolidation for the financial year again ‘ so far as it concerns , the members . ’ |
| 10 | However , the rights of any member or of the auditors to insist on a general meeting are entrenched by section 253 . |
| 11 | No explanation of the effect of the charge or of the sum intended to be thereby secured was offered to her . |
| 12 | Nor of the detritus found upon them . |
| 13 | We are of course conscious that of the position held by the County Council and by the district councils . |
| 14 | ( g ) The granting of a licence other than of the type applied for amounts to a refusal of an application . |
| 15 | It is an offence to sell liquors other than of the types specified in the licence . |
| 16 | But it seems clear that this one bears the marks of defeat and despair , and of a reprisal directed at the liberal England which has let the violator down . |
| 17 | But the picture that emerged in a week of highly speculative stories was a misleading one : of a body outside a tent , and of a diary found on the body , of suggestions of who had died and why . |
| 18 | As the world 's leading manufacturer of permanent pressure tennis balls , ( formerly known as ‘ pressureless ’ and of a type favoured in European markets by the general public but not yet extensively used in professional tournament tennis ) , Tretorn has justifiable cause for concern . |
| 19 | Transputers for Geometric Modelling : Parallel algorithms for use in graphics application ; Manipulation and display of a model held as a wire line model , of a model built using constructive solid geometry and of a model based on the spatial enumeration cuboids ; Accessing pixel-based data in an ordering which is that of a cubic spiral . |
| 20 | This , therefore , is a chronicle of failure , though a gallant failure and of a project engaged in with the best of intentions . |
| 21 | There are , however , cases which are hard to explain in this way , ; examples are the ability of a rat to find a submerged support , and of a goby to leap to a pool it can not see . |
| 22 | There are tales about the double-decker buses that have fallen in ( actually they have not yet , but the holes are big enough ) and of the sewage flowing through the basement of the Midland Hotel . |
| 23 | The Times , however , begged to differ : ‘ Knowing what we do of human nature , and of the licence claimed by young gentlemen in past times , we are inclined to take a somewhat less gloomy view of it . ’ |
| 24 | Lord Justice Neill said an examination of the Royal Charter under which the Jockey Club was set up and of the powers conferred on it suggested that in some aspects of its work it operated in the public domain . |
| 25 | To read how my own ancestors lived in the time of the Tudors and the Stuarts and to even learn that they occupied the 10th pew adjoining the South Wall in the Myddle Church has been the inspiration to write down some reminiscences of my own childhood and of the stories related to me , in the hope that they will be of interest , not only to the present generation , but maybe , also to that 500 years hence ! |
| 26 | There was evidence of the need for training and of the benefits derived from training in terms of improvement in time and effort expended on tasks . |
| 27 | This measure was important , first , because it was the first extension from the field of schooling into that of welfare of the principle that a publicly-financed benefit could be granted to those in need , free both of charge and of the disabilities associated with the Poor Law ; second , it was a step towards recognition that parents were not necessarily culpable for the undernourishment of their children and that , with public support , needy children could be well cared for at home and did not require withdrawal into public or voluntary care . |
| 28 | In Committee we talked about the needs of women returning home late at night and of the problems encountered by mothers with young children transferring from one mode of transport to another . |
| 29 | A suitable break-point was taken on the death of Magnentius in 353 , and of the reports examined from 334 buildings , no less than 199 offered no satisfactory evidence and it could be argued that the remaining 135 hardly offer a sufficient quantity for any serious statistical study . |
| 30 | The consent is a constitutive element both of the condition of the person who gives it and of the society resulting from it , which is good in itself . |